A jury trial is slated to begin on Monday in a federal civil rights case to determine the damages against Suffolk County in a nearly decade-old case centered on the detention of immigrants in the country illegally.

A federal judge earlier this year ruled Suffolk County violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of immigrants held on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers between 2016 and 2018. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied the county's request to delay the trial.

Jury selection begins Monday in Brooklyn federal court before Judge William F. Kuntz II.

Jose L. Perez, deputy general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a Manhattan-based advocacy group that filed the suit along with a law firm, said in a recent interview the trial will determine damages

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